Karina Korostelina

Karina V. Korostelina is an Associate Professor and Director of the Program on History Memory and Conflict at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, GMU . She has taught at National Taurida University, Ukraine and, since 2003, at GMU, where she also serves as Director of on-line M.S. program. She is also is a Chair of the Peace Culture and Communication Commission of the International Peace Research Association.

Professor Korostelina is a social psychologist whose work focuses on social identity and identity-based conflicts, intergroup insult, the nation building processes, the relationships between Muslim and non-Muslim populations, role of history in conflict and post-conflict societies, conflict resolution and peacebuilding. She has been Fulbright New Century Scholar in 2002-2003, fellow at the Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in 2009, fellow at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 1999-2000, and a visiting scholar at the Curriculum Resource Center of the Central European University in 2001. In 1993-2003 she was conducting research on ethnic and religious conflicts in Ukraine and served as a project director, mediator, and trainer for numerous conflict intervention programs. Since 2003 she is conducting research on identity-based conflicts in Armenia, Georgia, Morocco, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Ukraine. She has received 34 grants from the MacArthur Foundation, Luce Foundation, Spenser Foundation, Ebert Foundation, Soros Foundation (Research Support Scheme, Managing Multicultural Communities Project, Renaissance Foundation), the United State Institute of Peace, US National Academy of Education, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of USDS, INTAS, IREX, Eckert Institute, and Council of Europe.

One of her current projects, supported by the Ebert Foundation, Spenser Foundation and the United State Institute of Peace, concentrates on the impact of contested histories on political violence, the role of historic narratives in deeply divided societies, the role of history education in the formation and redefinitions of social identities in conflict and post-conflict societies, the processes of reconciliation and trauma healing in post-conflict societies, and inclusive and common history projects. In addition to conducting several research projects related to this topic, she conducts trainings for history teachers and leads a series of international seminars on contested histories.

Professor Korostelina has published more than 80 articles and chapters and is author or editor of 13 books. She authored The System of Social Identities: The Analysis of Ethnic Situation in the Crimea (2003), The Social Identity and Conflict: Structure, Dynamic and Implications (2007), Why they die? Civilian Devastation in Violent Conflicts (2011), History Education in the Formation of Social Identity: Toward a Culture of Peace (2013),Constructing Narrative of Identity and Power (2013), and International Insult: How Offence Contribute to Conflict (2014). Among her edited books are: Identity, Morality and Threat(2006), Civilians and Modern War: Armed Conflict and the Ideology of Violence(2012), Forming a Culture of Peace: Reframing Narratives of Intergroup Relations, Equity, and Justice (2012), and History Education and Post-Conflict Reconciliation: Reconsidering Joint Textbook Projects (2013).

Karina V. Korostelina is an Associate Professor and Director of the Program on History Memory and Conflict at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, GMU . She has taught at National Taurida University, Ukraine and, since 2003, at GMU, where she also serves as Director of on-line M.S. program. She is also is a Chair of the Peace Culture and Communication Commission of the International Peace Research Association.

Professor Korostelina is a social psychologist whose work focuses on social identity and identity-based conflicts, intergroup insult, the nation building processes, the relationships between Muslim and non-Muslim populations, role of history in conflict and post-conflict societies, conflict resolution and peacebuilding. She has been Fulbright New Century Scholar in 2002-2003, fellow at the Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in 2009, fellow at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 1999-2000, and a visiting scholar at the Curriculum Resource Center of the Central European University in 2001. In 1993-2003 she was conducting research on ethnic and religious conflicts in Ukraine and served as a project director, mediator, and trainer for numerous conflict intervention programs. Since 2003 she is conducting research on identity-based conflicts in Armenia, Georgia, Morocco, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Ukraine. She has received 34 grants from the MacArthur Foundation, Luce Foundation, Spenser Foundation, Ebert Foundation, Soros Foundation (Research Support Scheme, Managing Multicultural Communities Project, Renaissance Foundation), the United State Institute of Peace, US Na

The article begins with a description of the deportation of Crimean Tatars. It provides a brief review of the Nazi Occupation of Crimea, examines the negative images of Crimean Tatars published in Soviet newspapers between 1941-1943 and the explicit rationale...

This paper describes multiple voices and the complexity in the definition of the Ukrainian national idea, as well as the continuous competition to establish the leading meaning of national identity. Presenting major national narratives in Ukraine from field...

The purpose of this article is to build a systemic theory of insult based on insights from social identity theory and theories of power. Six types of insult are described: identity, projection, divergence, relative, power, and legitimacy, and the differences among...

Five women entered the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow and began a performance of a "Punk Prayer." Young people fried eggs on the eternal flame near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ukraine. A small island in the Japan Sea provoked a...

Despite the widespread acknowledgement that how people and groups understand their history plays a key role in the formation of their social identity, there has heretofore been only limited research on the mechanisms that bring this about. This book examines the...

Twenty years ago Ukraine gained its independence and started on a path towards a free market economy and democratic governance. After four successive presidents and the Orange Revolution, there is a vast body of literature on the process of development and the...

This book analyses the role of history education in conflict and post-conflict societies, describing common history textbook projects in Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Far East and the Middle East.Ever since the emergence of the modern school system and...

Forming a Culture of Peace addresses the formation of the culture of peace by challenging the discourses, narrative frames, and systems of values and beliefs that support and promote violence and conflict, defining new comprehensive approaches to human security....

Karina V. Korostelina discusses history education as a powerful mechanism for the development of social frames and public discourses that reflect political goals and develop loyalties to specific groups and selected identities. Apart from providing information...

This book explores the issue of civilian devastation in modern warfare, focusing on the complex processes that effectively establish civilians’ identity in times of war.Underpinning the physicality of war’s tumult are structural forces that create...

The enormous body of literature on the militarism of nations centers on the tumultuous encounters of martial forces, the political events preced­ing such encounters, and the cessation of hostilities with victory declared by one side. In recent years, scholars...

In many wars the states engaged in hostility aboard will turn their attentions to the enemy at home, targeting individuals who disguise themselves as patriots while supporting foreign powers. Chapter 3 “Devastating civilians at home: The plight of Crimean...

Chapter 5 “Double victims: The recruitment and treatment of child sol­diers in Chechnya” by Karina V. Korostelina and Juliia Kononenko analyze the reliance by martial forces on child soldiers in two wars in Chechnya: the mechanisms of involvement...

Can the plight of civilians in war be improved? Can martial forces adopt and implement policies that transcend parochial national interests and that override the polarizing militaristic framing of war—victory/defeat, allies/enemy, costs/benefits? Can the...

Common history projects can become one of the best vehicles through which to address issues of victimization and violence and create mutual understanding between societies formerly engaged in conflict. As such, developing a history curricula which looks at the...

State-controlled history education is used as a major tool in the development and strengthening of national identity, especially in newly independent states undergoing nation-building processes. The analysis of history education in Ukraine shows how it is employed...

Why do civilians suffer most during times of violent conflict? Why are civilian fatalities as much as eight times higher, calculated globally for current conflicts, than military fatalities? In Why They Die, Daniel Rothbart and Karina V. Korostelina address these...

This continuing series presents original research results on the leading edge of psychology analysis. Each article has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial results across a broad spectrum. This book reviews research on ways of defining...

Many scholars stress that teaching about the shared past plays a major role in the formation of national, ethnic, religious, and regional identities, in addition to influencing intergroup perceptions and relations. Through the analysis of historic narratives in...

This article examines the socio-psychological mechanisms that guided decisions of the Israeli leadership to attack the civilian infrastructure during the Lebanon war in 2006. Based on reports by the Israeli governmental commission for the war, known as the...

In the 1990s, Crimea had substantial potential for eruption of ehtnopolitical violence. Multiple " nested autonomy" conflicts arose from the resettlement of 250,000 Crimean Tatars, who had been deproted to Central Asia by Stalin in 1944, and the...

This article examines the process of national identity formation among ethnic minorities in the Crimea - specifically, the moderation effects of concepts of national identity on interrelations between conflict indicators and readiness for conflict or compromise...

The scale of devastation of the innocents, caught violent conflicts throughout the world, is increasing. This is not incidental to the nature of identity conflicts. In today’s violent conflicts the innocents die in far greater numbers than do military...

This paper discusses the results of the survey conducted in co-operation with the European Research Center for Migration and Ethnic Relations, concerning identity in the Autonomous Republics of Russia and Ukraine. The survey queried 6522 residents of such...

Many scholars have stressed that teaching about the past plays the major role in the formation of national, ethnic, religious, and regional identities, and intergroup perceptions and relations. This article analyzes the impact of the content of history education...

This book presents the conception of a system of social identities, including the system's structure, development and dynamics, and explores the influence of cultural dimensions and identity salience on attitudes, behavior, and the structures of consciousness....

The paper aims to explore the interconnections between social identities (ethnic, national, regional and religious) and conflict intentions in Tajikistan. Based on the analysis of the dynamics of identity-based conflicts, the paper emphasizes the importance of an...

Article OutlineReferences In 2005, the Program of Research and Training for Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the former Soviet Union (Title VIII), administrated by the Department of State, supported a new initiative of the Institute for Conflict...

Identity, Morality, and Threat offers a critical examination of the social psychological processes that generate outgroup devaluation and ingroup glorification as the source of conflict. Dr. Daniel Rothbart and Dr. Karina Korostelina bring together essays...

This paper examines the process of national identity formation among ethnic minorities in the Crimea—specifically, the moderation effects of national identity building on interrelations between conflict indicators and...

The title of this book is Issledovanie Sotsialnoi Identichnosti Na Puti K Primireniiu V Krymu and it was written by K. V. Korostelina. This edition of Issledovanie Sotsialnoi Identichnosti Na Puti K Primireniiu V Krymu is in a Book format. This books publish...

This article examines the process of national identity formation among ethnic minorities in the Crimea - specifically, how a new common identity develops in the system of existing identities, what meaning group identities have for different minorities group and...

The article presents identity-based training created on the basis of the social identity theory, categorization theory and common identity model. Training consists of three parts: (1) multiplicity and salience of identity; (2) identity as a course of conflicts; (3...

Markiewicz on the fiscal situation .It is a valuable source of information and analysis. They note that the tax system has failed to satisfy the state’s need for revenues and it dose not fulfill its regulatory and stimulatory functions. The existing tax...

Speakers:Thomas de Waal - Senior Associate in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie EndowmentTamra Pearson d'Estree - Director of the Conflict Resolution Institute's Center for Research and PracticeCharles Ingrao - Professor at Purdue UniversityModerated by

Dr. Karina V. Korostelina will be sharing from her new book which offers a novel framework for analyzing the ways in which seemingly minor insults between ethnic groups, nations, and other types of groups escalate to disproportionately violent behavior and political conflict. The book shows

Reconciliation in Progress Methodology and Initial Findings from a Project to Map and Analyze Reconciliation ProgrammingWednesday, March 4th2:00pm - 3:30 Conference Room 5183 Please join us for a presentation and panel discussion on this project, what it aims to achieve, its

The Program on History, Memory, and Conflict is excited to welcome Thomas de Waal, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment, specializing primarily in the South Caucasus region comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia and their breakaway territories as well as the wider Black Sea region.Mr.

Clash of Histories: War in Ukraine and Tensions in LatviaIssues of history are used as one of the mains instruments of Russian public diplomacy in support of Russia`s goals to dominate the wider region – the former territory of the Soviet Union. Russian authorities often accuse countries in